Obtained by the Associated Press, the confidential International Atomic Energy Agency report said Friday that Iran is well below its permitted limit of low-enriched uranium, set at around 660 pounds, and is not producing higher grades. The U.N. human rights office said Friday that it is “deeply disturbed” by the “lenient” 18-month prison sentence handed down by a Tel Aviv military court against an Israeli soldier who killed a badly wounded Palestinian assailant as he lay on the ground after he had stabbed another soldier. Slovenia has introduced a law on same-sex partnership that grants legal rights to gay unions but does not allow them to adopt or undergo in-vitro fertilization. Same-sex unions now enjoy the same legal protection as married couples in areas including social and health care benefits. Though Slovenia is among the most liberal eastern European countries, gay rights remain a contentious topic in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation of 2 million. The era of austerity is over, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Friday as he painted a positive picture of the reforms his government has agreed to take after the bailout program ends in 2018.
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